Great upbeat album. The crowds enthusiasm is infectious!
Posted on 02/06/2006 11:11:04 AM PST by Millee
If you can't be there in person then sometimes the "Live Album" can be the next best thing.
Following are a few of my favorites, in no particular order. Please share some of your own!
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Great upbeat album. The crowds enthusiasm is infectious!
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This album reminds me of spying on my parents parties when they would break of this record and dance in our living room.
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"I killed a man just to watch him die" - Great audience response! ;o)
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"The King Must Die" and "Have Mercy on the Criminal" are superb!
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(Hand over ears) I don't care what you say - lalalalalalala - I like it! :op
I guess the image is a little big? Oops!
A lot of live recordings sound rough, but Alison Krauss and Union Station's live album is about as close to perfection as musicians can get.
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Forty-seven posts before anyone got around to the greatest live album ever... |
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To be fair it was mentioned at post 28.
(Just thought it deserved a cover.)
BTTT...........they are still great live when they feel like it...what's left of them.
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Barry? As in Manilow?
C'mon MM I thought you had better taste than that!
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HEY!!! LOL
I have GREAT taste thankyouverymuch. My taste is diverse. I like almost ALL music. I enjoy classical, oldies, pop, rock, metal... almost anything EXCEPT rap... Gosh I hate that!
MM
Great taste... suuuuure. ;-)
Did you see on Drudge where our Barry is at the top of the charts?????
re #4 -- that's not even Elton's best Live album. Yeah, it's nice to hear "Madman" and "Criminal" live, but that's the album that almost turned me off "Tiny Dancer" and "Tonight" (I heard the live LP before the original versions). Have you heard the remastered "Here and There?" It features two complete shows on two CDs, including Elton's duets with John Lennon.
However, my favorite Elton live LP would have to be 11-17-70. Just Elton, Dee, and Nigel pounding away in obscurity. Plus, they manage to drag out "Burn Down the Mission" for 20 minutes or so.
Oh, my other favorite live albums are "Wings Over America," "Live Cream Vol. 2," "Brian Wilson Live at the Roxy," and "Queen Live at the Bowl." I'd include Pink Floyd at Boston Garden 1975, but that's an audience recording...
I haven't heard the remastered Here and There, but I have that on vinyl (I'm so old!) ;o) But, I liked 'Tonight' on the Melbourne album and I've always been luke warm on Tiny Dancer anyway. I used to have the Live in Central Park(?) video, but I lost it. Sniff..sniff...
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